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-Great Cultural Revolution

Claudine Gay is a DEI hire lacking intellectual credentials, critics argue

2023-12-12

[CampusReform] While calls for Harvard University President Claudine Gay to resign have only grown since her unwillingness to classify advocating for the genocide against Jews as violating campus policies during a congressional hearing earlier this week, others are calling out the university for allegedly hiring her because of identity politics.

... New Mexico Associate Psychology Professor Geoffrey Miller also took to X on Dec. 6 to express concern over the relatively low total amount of 11 peer-reviewed journal papers that Gay had authored in spite of her being a president at an elite university.

"Well, that’s about the number you’d normally need to get hired as a first-year tenure-track assistant professor at a decent state university," he wrote.

This is truly shocking. Even I, little housewife that I am, had my name on three scientific publications as a mere undergrad — as the most junior author, to be sure, but even so — and they all derived from a single research project. It’s not hard to rack up the count when playing publish or perish games.
Miller went on to acknowledge that today’s university "administrators function more like party political officers in communist Russian or Chinese universities." He added, "I mean ’party’ quite literally: the Democratic party."

"And an increasing proportion of them are fully woke identitarian Leftists: they often launched their careers with a short series of papers on woke topics, using woke ideological frameworks, published in woke journals - before turning to the administrative track that offers much more political power to propagandize, indoctrinate, and control," Miller asserted.

Then there are the plagiarism charges (https://christopherrufo.com/p/is-claudine-gay-a-plagiarist)

Posted by:Grom the Reflective

#15 they're standing behind her
So fewer but more powerful munitions are required...

Posted by: Glenmore 2023-12-12 14:52

#14 thank you LBJ. (affirmative action)

Posted by: irish rage boy 2023-12-12 14:34

#13 Imagine if it was the KKK calling for the murder of black people. What's the context?

Posted by: Deacon Blues 2023-12-12 12:18

#12 As predicted, Harvard Board is standing by her, even as she admits "inadequate citation" in some academic writings! Only in DEI Woke-World does no mention of actual authorship mean inadequate citation, or in common parlance, academic fraud. But it's OK if you have the special credentials of melanin and chromosomes...

"Harvard University president Claudine Gay plagiarized from numerous academics over the course of her academic career, at times airlifting entire paragraphs and claiming them as her own work, according to reviews by several scholars. In four papers published between 1993 and 2017, including her doctoral dissertation,"

https://freebeacon.com/campus/this-is-definitely-plagiarism-harvard-university-president-claudine-gay-copied-entire-paragraphs-from-others-academic-work-and-claimed-them-as-her-own/

Posted by: NoMoreBS 2023-12-12 12:18

#11 Harvard scores dead last on free speech on campus.

Posted by: Deacon Blues 2023-12-12 12:17

#10 She's politically correct and that's all that matters. Go ahead. Send your kids to Harvard. They'll get the best brainwashing that money can buy.

Posted by: Abu Uluque 2023-12-12 12:02

#9 they're standing behind her

And now the push?

Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-12-12 11:36

#8 The Harvard board today told us all they're standing behind her.

But the comments are right. She was hired only for her skin color and chromosomes. She has no other qualifications.

I wonder if the Board told her to shut up, at least for a while. Because the next time she speaks, she will step in it pretty deeply again.

Posted by: Tom 2023-12-12 11:19

#7 Anything that isn't a hard science is just words strung together. As a professional stringer-together-of-words, I have no problem with that.

But let's please all agree that nonsense is nonsense regardless of how en vogue politically attractive it might be.

Free association with a racial cast is still just a Friday afternoon acid trip time passer.

Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-12-12 10:48

#6 A DEI hire lacking in...

perfect for the job

Posted by: lord garth 2023-12-12 10:31

#5 Doing original thesis research is a "white privilege" thing...

Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-12-12 09:37

#4 She will be gone before the month is out. A minority hire in the first place, her plagiarisms and lack of production will be used to shoo her out the door.

Posted by: Jerens Black9355 2023-12-12 08:00

#3 Hot Air - Does Harvard's President Also Have a Plagiarism Scandal? Update: Billionaire donor demands Gay's firing

Posted by: Besoeker 2023-12-12 07:24

#2 White guilt - is there anything it can't wreck?

Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-12-12 05:54

#1 "Truly shocking".... only if you've just awaken from a 50 year coma.

Posted by: Besoeker 2023-12-12 05:51

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